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The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism)
The Best and Worst Country in the World Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape - Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Author: Stephen Adams
From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has elicited dramtically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Drayton exalted the land as "earth's onely paradise," while John Smith, in his reports to England, summarized the area around Jamestown as "a miserie, a ruine, a death, hell." Drawing upon both familiar history ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813920375
ISBN-10: 081392037X
Publication Date: 10/1/2001
Pages: 305
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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